Taro (disambiguation)
# Taro (disambiguation)

Taro (Colocasia esculenta) is a tropical plant grown primarily for its edible corms.

Taro may also refer to:

## Plants

* Alocasia macrorrhizos, giant taro
* Cyrtosperma merkusii, swamp taro
* Xanthosoma sagittifolium, blue taro

## Places

* Taro (river), a river in northern Italy
* Taro (department), a former administrative division of the First French Empire in present Italy, named after the Taro River
* Tarō, Iwate, Japan (田老町), former town in Shimohei District, Iwate Prefecture (now part of Miyako)
* Taro Island, community in the Solomon Islands, capital of Choiseul Province
* Tarou, Dominica, a small village in western Dominica

## Other uses

* Tarō (given name), a Japanese name
* David Taro (born 1984), Solomon Islands soccer defender
* Gerda Taro (1910–1937), German war photographer
* Volkswagen Taro, a pickup truck, rebadge of the Toyota Hilux
* Ultraman Taro, a 1973 television series
* 48 Infantry Division Taro, an Italian infantry division of World War II
* "Taro", a song by the British band alt-J from the 2012 album An Awesome Wave
* Taro Pharmaceuticals, a pharmaceutical manufacturer
* Territorial Army Reserve of Officers, former name of the U.K. Army Reserve
* The monetary unit in the online game Cartoon Network Universe: FusionFall
* Taro, a dog that survived a winter in Antarctica; see Taro and Jiro
